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Rose sulked all the way to Potions the next day. It was her first class of the morning, and the first of many with Scorpius. Wednesday was the day she dreaded the most; they shared all of the same classes. The only highlight was that she'd be able to gloat about successively hitting him with her hex, but her five minutes of fame wouldn't last forever. Rose reluctantly entered the classroom and sat down in the seat she despised; it was the one next to Scorpius's. She still cursed Professor Nymph for placing her next to him, shouldn't all the teachers know by now they despised each other? Rose put her head in her hands, not willing to face to day ahead.
Minutes later, Rose heard the stool next to her scrape against the cement floor. Rose looked up, surprised. Normally Scorpius would have made some snide remark to make his presence known. But when Rose saw him, he was staring straight ahead with a bored expression on his face.
"I see you've recovered," she said smugly. He didn't turn to face her; instead, he simply shrugged. Rose squinted her eyes in confusion. He wasn't going to rebuff?
"Hippogriff got your tongue?" she tried again. He didn't respond at all this time.
"Alright, alright class, settle down!" Professor Nymph called as she entered the classroom and took her place in the front of the room. Rose turned to give the professor her full attention. "Today we will be brewing a simple potion that enables the drinker to feel the emotions of whoever they touch. The directions are on page 77 of your textbooks. You may begin!"
Rose quickly flipped to page 77 and scanned the ingredients. It was a pretty simple potion, easier then they've had in a while. She walked over to the store cupboard and picked out the necessarily ingredients and headed back to her seat.
While she brewed her potion, Rose's thoughts strayed to Scorpius's odd behavior. Usually by this time they had swapped a fair amount of insults, but today he refused to even look at her. She was so deep in thought that her hand absentmindedly knocked over her entire jar of Squid Extract and it fell to the floor with a crash. Rose felt her face burn as the entire class burst out laughing. She quickly repaired the jar and contained the extract with a wave of her wand. Stupid Scorpius, making her look like a imbecile! Wait, shouldn't he have insulted her by now?
Rose turned her head to look at him and stared as Scorpius continued to prepare his Potion as if nothing had happened. The rest of the class was staring at him expectantly, their laughter dying as they saw he wasn't reacting. They were all thinking the same thing: why hasn't Scorpius leaped at the perfect chance to taunt Rose?
"Back to work, the lot of you!" Professor Nymph commanded, but even she looked a little confused.
"Mate, are you sure you're feeling alright?" Hermes Bink asked Scorpius.
"Fine. Why?" Scorpius asked as if he had no idea why Hermes was thinking such a thing.
"Rose embarrassed herself today and you pretended like it didn't even happen. You didn't even laugh!"
"It wasn't that big of a deal."
Hermes, along with their other two friends, Roger and Tam, stopped in their tracks, looking as if they had just seen McGonagall in her kickers.
"What is the matter with you three? Come on, we're going to be late to Charms." Scorpius pestered.
"What's the matter with us? Scorp, you and Rose have been on each other's case for the past four years and you pass up your chance to tease her claiming it wasn't that big of a deal'?" Roger asked incredulously.
"Whatever! It's not something you pansies should get worked up about. Now are you coming to Charms or not?" Scorpius snapped. The three shrugged to each other and the resumed the walk to their next lesson.
Just as they turned to corner, however, Scorpius saw Rose run into Filch, the creepy caretaker, and fall over, her books falling everywhere. Everyone who saw started laughing.
"Is she hurt?" Scorpius automatically thought, worried. But then he caught himself.
"What do you care? Its just Weasley! It's her fault for not watching where she's going! And you shouldn't worry if she's hurt or not!" he yelled at himself. Scorpius pushed through the crowd who had stopped to watch with a scowl on his face. When he was almost next to Rose, who was on the floor picking up her books, blushing a red that put the Gryffindor common room in shame, his first instinct was to help her up. He cursed himself again and strode past her even quicker to the Charms room. As he left the corridor, he heard everyone go silent, probably wondering why he hadn't said anything.
"Some reputation I've got," he muttered to himself. "Whatever. They can all go piss off."
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